| The eve was upon them, as a brilliant sunset became a glorious moonrise, transforming the lethargic day into a delirious nocturne. |
| She pulled a volume of Chopin from the stand, and began the twelfth nocturne. |
| Moved by her rendition of a Chopin nocturne, he decreed that she should not be put to death. |
| But when he belatedly introduces a lurid plot, the novel becomes less Joycean nocturne, more Pulp Fiction. |
| After the Brahms and the Haydn he learned three preludes and fugues of Bach, two Beethoven sonatas, a nocturne by Chopin, and pieces by Schumann and Ravel. |
| From valse to nocturne, from sonata to prelude, her fancy ran. |
